What's your favorite view in Venice?Impossible to answer. Although there are a few choice spots.Il Palazzo Ducale, View from San Giorgio20x30cm (approx oil on wood©Kelly Medfordclick here to purchaseThis is a spectacular view that also gives you some distance where you can gaze across the water
When I think of Venice I think of gray, fog and soft quiet light.Though it's not always that way, that is the ideal way I like to picture the city and the empty sparse piazzas around every corner seem to echo this sentiment. Fall, San Giacomo
Besides the Colosseum, there is another structure that can be seen from miles around, this one made of steel and known as Il Gazometro.In English the only word I can find for this skyscraper hollow metal round tower is gasometer. And it is a staple
When in Venice I spend countless hours walking the bridges, back alleyways and canals of Venice in search of painting spots.I tend to shy away from the overly crowded tourist spots and look for something more intimate.I also love anything crumbling. Don't ask me why
Every plein air painter dreams or loves painting Venice, the magical city built entirely on the water.Normally when I think of paintings from Venice I think of foggy views of churches and boats seen across the water or grand sweeping scapes of The Grand Canal.Last
This park called Colle Oppio or the Oppian Hill in English, has a special place in my heart. The first day I set foot in Italy almost 10 years ago now (almost impossible to believe, but it's true), I stumbled upon this park which is
Found in all the most picturesque places in Rome, these fast-food snack trucks are a part of our local scenery.Bibite, Panini: Pincio6x8"oil on linen panel©Kelly Medfordavailable hereNot considered a real food alternative if you're out and about in the city as anything you can eat
Writer and Blogger Toni DeBella recently came on a Sketching Rome Tour and had so much fun that she got inspired and wrote the following piece about me on her blog Orivieto or Bust. Check out the piece and enjoy!writer Toni DeBella at a local
A rush to the finish line is what NOT to say to yourself when headed out to paint in a 1-day plein air painting competition. Instead, the best strategy I've found is to search until I find the exact thing I want to paint, no matter